Can anyone clarify if there are any "reliable" sliding doors available in PVC, that could go to approx 3.5 metres by maybe 2.7m?

[Makeitstop]

As above.

 

Sorry, not really researched this as yet. It was a discussion i had recently.

 

Question relates to a project my daughter has coming up, which is a sizeable job. She seems to think PVC can do this, but to my mind (and poor memory) its too large. Its been a few years since i did my own job, where i used Reynaers slider.

 

Anyone have views on this?

[Spinny]

If someone is having an opening as large as 7m by 2.7m, I can't really fathom why they would WANT PVC rather than aluminium.

[Marvin]

Not sure that the PVC will take the weight of the glass....

[Makeitstop]

7 metres?

[Makeitstop]

It would be maybe 3.5 metres total width, perhaps 4 metres max.

 

Height approx 2.7 maybe

[Spinny]

As any limit will apply to any one single door with the total width of the opening being irrelevant, and you said 3.5m, I assumed you must be referring to a minimum opening of 7m with two 3.5m wide sliding doors.

With a sufficient number of doors, doubtless you could do it in PVC e.g. 7 sliding doors each 0.5m wide. Probably going to look a bit shit though.

 

Are you thinking of two doors each 1.75m wide and 2.7m high ? Or perhaps 3 doors each 1.2m wide, requiring three tracks ?

 

Maybe type ''how wide can a upvc sliding door be'' into google AI ?

[torre]

Plastic lift and slide like Aluplast will probably be able to handle that size / height and have decent u-values but may not be any cheaper than the popular aluminium systems and will definitely have bigger profiles.

[Makeitstop]

 Ah well